Finds that Asian/Pacific Islander students had the highest percentage of postsecondary applicants at 91% and American Indian/Alaska Native students had the lowest at 63%. From the National Center for Education Statistics

Profiles current conditions and recent trends in the education of students by racial and ethnic groups. Covers such topics for each group as demographic characteristics, student achievement, student behaviors and persistence in education, postsecondary participation, and educational outcomes. From the National Center for Education Statistics

Agency press release on the availability of statistics on social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics for hundreds of race, tribal, Hispanic origin, and ancestry populations via the American Community Survey. This is the second five-year aggregation of such data and covers the 2011-2015 time period. Provides links to the detailed data. From the Census Bureau

Agency press release which reports on a 4.9% increase in the number of minority-owned firms in 2015 to a total of 996,248. Provides additional details about women and minority-owned businesses and links to the 2015 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. From the Census Bureau

Latest court decision in the long-running North Carolina redistricting case. The Supreme Court vacated a District Court ruling that legislators elected in November 2016 in what the court considered to be racially gerrymandered districts would serve only one year and new elections would have to be held in November 2017. From the Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute

5-3 decision of the Supreme Court that North Carolina used racial factors in an unconstitutional manner in drawing two Congressional districts after the 2010 Census. From the Legal Information Institute of the Cornell University Law School